[Bug 1278940] Re: "tail -f" no longer updates in 14.04

[C de-Avillez]

thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. Can you
give us details? I just tried it here, and I see updates being printed
out by tail.

Could it be that (perhaps just by chance) the file you were tailing was
renamed/recreated (by log rotation/limits), and you missed '--
follow=name --retry" (or its short form, '-F'?

** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  "tail -f" no longer updates in 14.04

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  "tail -f /var/log/syslog" does not follow updates to the file.  It
  does a tail of the file and then is never updated.

  That is a pretty serious regression and one that I am VERY surprised
  to find in a Ubuntu LTS release so late in the cycle.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: coreutils 8.21-1ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-6.23-generic 3.13.0
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-6-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Feb 11 15:46:38 2014
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/tail
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140202)
  SourcePackage: coreutils
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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